Tried it last night. Suits me tip-top.
SAM'L L. CLEMENS.


The Roughing It chapters proved a success, and continued in high
favor through the rest of the season.


To James Redpath, in Boston:

LOGANSPORT, IND. Jan. 2, 1872.
FRIEND REDPATH,--Had a splendid time with a splendid audience in
Indianapolis last night--a perfectly jammed house, just as I have had all
the time out here. I like the new lecture but I hate the "Artemus Ward"
talk and won't talk it any more. No man ever approved that choice of
subject in my hearing, I think.

Give me some comfort. If I am to talk in New York am I going to have a
good house? I don't care now to have any appointments cancelled. I'll
even "fetch" those Dutch Pennsylvanians with this lecture.

Have paid up $4000 indebtedness. You are the, last on my list. Shall
begin to pay you in a few days and then I shall be a free man again.
Yours,
MARK.


With his debts paid, Clemens was anxious to be getting home. Two
weeks following the above he wrote Redpath that he would accept no
more engagements at any price, outside of New England, and added,